Quote Originally Posted by pll View Post
Door areas (and elevator areas) are reinforced, so it is a safe spot to wait out the end of the shaking.

Outside, debris from buildings (windows breaking, stucco work...) and power cables are most dangerous.
Correct, load baring walls may be your best option. If you're inside get under a desk etc, duck, cover, hold on (the desk etc might move). If there's nothing like that nearby head for a load baring wall like elevator areas, near stairwell, bathrooms tend to be reinforced. Disabled people who might not be able to get under a desk should head there too. Move away from the windows.

Once the shaking stops (the earth, not you) if you're in an office the tendency is for everyone to skeedadle out. Don't use the elevators, take your normal evacuation route but wait ....

Depending on the quake the evacuation route might be blocked debris in stairway etc. So pick a person or persons to check the route first, say a manager you don't like much They go down and see if it's safe. You don't want the entire building leaving only to find on the bottom the route is blocked.

Sometimes you may be safer in the building than out.

Once outside stay away from the building, glass etc may still be falling.